This summer’s ISI will feature lectures, films, performance, visual arts and other learning activities to provide cross-regional and global perspectives of protest movements.

The goal of this year's ISI is to provide educators with resources to teach about protests from a global perspective.  While all are welcome to attend, material will be geared towards high school and community college educators. Topics to be discussed include:

--Social justice movements in Mexico
--Artistic expression of protest, including performance and demonstration signs
--South African anti-apartheid and current human rights movements
--the Arab Spring
--Chinese pro-democracy demonstrations
--Indian anti-corruption demonstrations
--Tibet, human rights and independence demonstrations
--Post-Soviet “color revolutions”
--Immigrant rights in the EU
--Global Occupy movement
--Local social justice movements; poetry and spoken word

Participating teachers will receive CPDUs for IL teachers or CEUs for non-IL
teachers.

Lodging will be provided for out-of-town participants.

Deadline for registration is April 15, 2012.

The following films will be screened as part of ISI. Films are open to the public in room 126 LIS, 501 E Daniel St, Champaign, IL (map)

-- Tambien la Lluvia ("Even the Rain")
-- Egypt: The Story behind the Revolutio
-- Please Don't Beat Me, Sir!
-- Putin's Kiss